I have a happy little rainbow flock of 15 pullets (3 EE, 2 BR, 3 BO, 3 SLW, 3 LB, 1 blk sexlink) and one cockeral (Gold Campine), all currently ~7 weeks old and raised together so no drama. Currently in a large coop with covered run (we have hawks), but I plan to free range the gang daily on 1.5 fenced acres when they are a little bigger.
I was given 2 more EEs (siblings), approx same age, told they were pullets but at least one is definitely a cockeral and I'm 90% sure the other is as well (BYC inputs). Neither EE wants anything to do with human contact, no hand feeding, etc, though I'm working on that. One settles as soon as he's caught and just waits it out, the other one cries and struggles. The one that settles is the more dominant of the two, they took about 3 minutes of chest bumping and feather pulling after I put them in their quarantine run to settle that.
They are almost done with quarantine, but now that I could integrate, I'm not sure I want to!! My questions:
1) Is there any benefit to having a second roo?
2) What would be the cutoff age for easiest integration?
3) Based on their descriptions, if you were going to integrate one, which one would it be?
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I was given 2 more EEs (siblings), approx same age, told they were pullets but at least one is definitely a cockeral and I'm 90% sure the other is as well (BYC inputs). Neither EE wants anything to do with human contact, no hand feeding, etc, though I'm working on that. One settles as soon as he's caught and just waits it out, the other one cries and struggles. The one that settles is the more dominant of the two, they took about 3 minutes of chest bumping and feather pulling after I put them in their quarantine run to settle that.
They are almost done with quarantine, but now that I could integrate, I'm not sure I want to!! My questions:
1) Is there any benefit to having a second roo?
2) What would be the cutoff age for easiest integration?
3) Based on their descriptions, if you were going to integrate one, which one would it be?
edited to clarify subject line
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